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NYTimes Steve Almond: Sure I’m an obnoxious, arrogant prick, but the tools and fools of evil conservatism made me that way [Darleen Click]

Consider the recent debate over whether employers must cover contraception in their health plans. The underlying question — should American women receive help in protecting themselves from unwanted pregnancies? — is part of a serious and necessary national conversation.

Any hope of that conversation happening was dashed the moment Rush Limbaugh began his attacks on Sandra Fluke, the young contraceptive advocate. […]

But the real problem isn’t Limbaugh. He’s just a businessman who is paid to reduce complex cultural issues to ad hominem assaults. The real problem is that liberals, both on an institutional and a personal level, have chosen to treat for-profit propaganda as news. In so doing, we have helped redefine liberalism as an essentially reactionary movement. Rather than initiating discussion, or advocating for more humane policy, we react to the most vile and nihilistic voices on the right. […]

The first and most damning reason is that some part of me truly enjoys resenting conservatives. I know I shouldn’t, that I should strive for equanimity. But secretly I feel the same helplessness and rage that animates the extreme right wing of this country. I see a world dangerously out of balance — morally, economically, ecologically — and my natural impulse is to blame those figures who, in my view, embody the decadent ignorance of the age. They become convenient scapegoats. […]

My fixation on conservative demagogues also includes a share of covert envy. The truth is that I feel overrun by moral uncertainty, bewildered by the complexity of our planetary crises. Wouldn’t it be nice, I ask myself, to feel entirely sure of my beliefs? To shout down anyone who disagrees with me? To dismiss peak oil and global warming as fairy tales? To accept capitalism as a catechism?

But what’s really happening when I scoff at Sarah Palin’s latest tweet amounts to a mimetic indulgence: I’m bleeding the world of nuance, surrendering to the seduction of binary thinking.

This pattern of defensive grievance, writ large, has derailed the liberal agenda and crippled the nation’s moral progress.

Yes, Steve, I don’t believe what I write, what I say, or how I live my life. I just do it for the sweet, sweet check from the Koch Brothers I get each month.

Or was that Haliburton? Being such a binary, un-nuanced bitter clinger, I have trouble keeping my Evil Overlords straight.

He states the underlying question is whether or not women should get help in paying for contraception.

First, I’m pretty sure it wasn’t posed as a question. It was announced as a settled issue by bureaucratic fiat. Secondly, it seems odd that a man proclaiming himself in search of a nuanced discussion fails to bring up the equally important underlying issue of freedom of religion. Again, that’s not really a question though, is it? We settled that with the First Amendment.

Mr. Almond obviously did Boston College a favor by resigning as he is a very muddled thinker.

bh, I too, was struck by the fact that he seems not recognize that the healthcare argument is not one about women’s access to birth control, but one about freedom of religion and the First Amendment. Each of his arguments, regardless of topic, walks itself around a small circle and ends where he began. There is no resolution.

We sometimes make note of the fact that some of our opponents in these matters are not able to grasp and then state our viewpoints accurately whether from their cocooning or their bad faith. (Or both.)

What they don’t seem to grasp is that one doesn’t attempt to understand other people only because it’s how one actually thinks and debates but there is also the simple matter of personal pride.

Speaking like a fool is no virtue. Neither is being a fool by thinking this is how one wins a propaganda war.

Do not use tetracycline if you are pregnant. It could cause harm to the unborn baby, including permanent discoloration of the teeth later in life. Tetracycline can make birth control pills less effective. Use a second method of birth control while you are taking this medicine to keep from getting pregnant. Tetracycline passes into breast milk and may affect bone and tooth development in a nursing baby. Do not take this medication without telling your doctor if you are breast-feeding a baby. Do not give this medicine to a child younger than 8 years old. Tetracycline can cause permanent yellowing or graying of the teeth, and it can affect a child’s growth.

Avoid exposure to sunlight or artificial UV rays (sunlamps or tanning beds). Tetracycline can make your skin more sensitive to sunlight and sunburn may result. Use a sunscreen (minimum SPF 15) and wear protective clothing if you must be out in the sun.

Do not take iron supplements, multivitamins, calcium supplements, antacids, or laxatives within 2 hours before or after taking tetracycline. These products can make this medicine less effective.

Throw away any unused tetracycline when it expires or when it is no longer needed. Do not take this medicine after the expiration date on the label has passed. Expired tetracycline can cause a dangerous syndrome resulting in damage to the kidneys.

bh, setting Mr Almond aside for the moment, it seems to me that a decided inability to find the right question is something of a theme in Progressive politics today (today, today), citing the difficulties Prof Jacobson found at the Netroots Convention, the facile lying-spinning-lying cycle Mara Liasson takes herself through here (I mean, who else does she expect to go along with her nonsense if not herself?) and in nearly innumerable other instances of Progressive thought abroad in the news: Obama’s failures to recognize his own failures being most prominent among them. They’s got a problem. Getting to the question is the first step to being addressing the problem.

there’s all sorts of drug interactions possible with stuff what is already over the counter though

otc viagra would be smart too … and it looks like there may be data on it

In February 2007, it was announced that Boots, the UK pharmacy chain, would try over-the-counter sales of Viagra in stores in Manchester, England. Men between the ages 30 and 65 would be eligible to buy four tablets after a consultation with a pharmacist.[54]

Maybe the other kids used to rag and riff on his name. They renamed the “Swirly” the “Almond Joy,” the “Skyhook” became the “Nut Harvest,” the sebaceous sheen on his face “Almond Oil” and so on. That was long ago, when no Federal government agency was tasked with defending his dignity. Not like nowadays, when do-gooder Federal intentions are permeating every nook and cranny of society like an application of WD-40. There was no Dan Savage to save him then. Vicious conservatives would like to roll back the water-displacing healing capillary flow of good intentions and leave us all exposed to random oxidation.

The conservative commentariat funding angle works this way: If you are poor and conservative, they point and laugh at your poverty. If you are moderately well-off, you are obviously being funded by rich conservative subversives. If you are rich and conservative, you’re the one funding the commentariat. And George Soros, ACORN, government-funded academic tools, and all those special deals with rent-seeking corporations are mythical creatures like the Chupacabra. No such thing.

I’ll venture an unformed thought on the cause of the Progressive’s problem by way of characterization: the problem is doctrinal, baked in the cake. As progressives, their necessary understanding is that their doctrine leads to progress (i.e. the good or the good simply): hence, how can there be a problem? Let alone a serious problem?

Funny how he claims to “feel overrun by moral uncertainty, bewildered by the complexity of our planetary crises”. But then brings up two of the cases — peak oil and global warming — where it’s the liberals who are most often entirely sure of their beliefs and shout down anyone who disagrees, or even questions those issues where the “science is settled”. Meanwhile, he himself dubs these issues “planetary crises”, belying his claim of uncertainty. This isn’t moral uncertainty, it’s moral preening.

bh, your counties and towns in Wisco have awesome Injun names like ours down here. Network newsies always mispronounce the names of our towns Eucha and some others that I can’t spell without looking them up.

There’s little to do for the progressives if, after quietly and thoroughly explaining the state of their dilemma on the “public sector workers union” at the fundamental level of expression, they refuse to come to grips. And I believe we can see that this is precisely the current state of affairs for them:

Daniels said that vote should send a message about the problems with public-sector unions.

“I think the message is that, first of all, voters are seeing the fundamental unfairness of government becoming its own special interest group, sitting on both sides of the table,” he said. […]

AFL-CIO Deputy Chief of Staff Thea Lee said the public does support pensions for public- and private-sector workers.

“That’s something that people do support at the end of the day. We have to figure out how to fund it, we have to figure out how to make it viable, but I don’t think that voters in this country want to go to a place where our elderly people are living in poverty,” she said. “When times are tough, people are trying to figure out who’s to blame, but we need to be able to fund our public sector.” […]

Lee, though, said government workers are not overpaid when salaries are taken into consideration, noting that highly skilled professionals like doctors make less in the public than private sectors.

She said the debate should focus on how the private sector can offer better retirement benefits, not on how the public sector can offer fewer benefits.

And AFL-CIO Deputy Chief of Staff Thea Lee will continue to reap the untoward electoral results this policy engenders. Which, fine, if she chooses to be bull-headed to her loss, who are we to dissuade her?

They steadfastly refuse to think about its legal problems and its basic unpopularity. So they cede the field to us and then complain that we’re merely better at reducing complex issues to simple slogans.

Hilarious how people seem to think that birth control is the “cheapest” method, and now the question seems to be who gets to pay, the actual user or the taxpayers who don’t support BC in the first place…

There is another birth control method – 100% effective, prevents 100% of all known (and all unknown) STDs, and doesn’t cost a single penny, no matter how often you use it. The Catholics have been advocating it for years, and yet the government seems to want to force their less-effective, more-costly method that exposes you to a greater than zero chance of catching a potentially crippling or fatal disease onto us as “the smarter solution”.

The catch is that you have to use it consistently, and you won’t have anyone but yourself to blame should you forget… And personal responsibility is no longer allowed under the Nanny State, because self-esteem is more important than doing the right thing, and it means teaching your kids that having a baby is a “punishment” with a life sentence and no chance of parole.

I’m still trying to figure out where the words “health care” appear in our Founding Documents…

Lee, though, said government workers are not overpaid when salaries are taken into consideration

Thea Lee is a lying cocksucking whore what lies I think

Federal employees earn higher average salaries than private-sector workers in more than eight out of 10 occupations, a USA TODAY analysis of federal data finds.

Accountants, nurses, chemists, surveyors, cooks, clerks and janitors are among the wide range of jobs that get paid more on average in the federal government than in the private sector.

Overall, federal workers earned an average salary of $67,691 in 2008 for occupations that exist both in government and the private sector, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data. The average pay for the same mix of jobs in the private sector was $60,046 in 2008, the most recent data available.*

“Lee, though, said government workers are not overpaid when salaries are taken into consideration.”

– No feets, in a lot of instances hes correct, but its the usual Lefturd nuanced bullshit.

– What hes not saying is that the salaries are scandeously high to begin with. By the Lefts yardstick it sounds reasonable that way.

– They continue to ignore the tsunami, almost in a cartoonish pie-in-the-face way, the whole point of the Wis. results. Voters are mad as hell and aren’t going to take it any more. But the Left can’t allow the narrative to fall, so they disemble and temporize, desperate to stem the tide, and happily enough for tax payers, just making it worse for themselves.

what’s really happening when I scoff at Sarah Palin’s latest tweet amounts to a mimetic indulgence: I’m bleeding the world of nuance, surrendering to the seduction of binary thinking.

Bleeding? The world? You have a mighty high opinion of your reach, Dorothy. On the other hand, bleeding as a remedy or palliative for what ails ya’ sounds medieval and primitive, so it must be right up your bitter alley.

– It’s exactly not the typical worker, (although the outlandish number of unnessesary workers is certainly part of the problem), but the highly overpaid positions, where people are pulling dpwn 400K+, and million dollar pensions, along with public sector Unions making 35 dollars an hour for private sector jobs that typically pay 12 – 18 bucks, with outrageous tax payer funded pension plans, while private sector only has 401K semi self paid. Its so unbalanced its hard not to laugh when they try to deny.

– The truth is its all about Bunnblefucks bought and paid for base, and their fight to hold onto the scam they’ve had going for so long.

Not just the public sector union jobs, not just all public sector jobs, not just them and the private sector union jobs. We must also figure in the NGOs, the foundations, the multiple board memberships, the HR diversity compliance universe, even down to the 501 [c] ? schemes of all the little BKs and NRs of the world.

The past year in Madison and the last two years, now standing exposed, of BK show just what they will do to keep the scams going just a little longer. “By Any Means Necessary” applies across the left spectrum.

I’m pretty sure he actually meant memetic, i.e., as the result of a meme, versus mimetic.

I mean, I think he’s trying to say he’s going along with this whole idea that the lady Palin is deserving of mockery, rather than the idea he and his are somehow imitating a pattern in nature that demands mockery of women. (Or they’re attempting to act like the dominant social group because doing so will result in change for their social group. I am pretty sure that’s not what they’re doing; if anything, Breitbart and Limbaugh engaged in mimesis of the Left, rather than vice-versa.)

My favorite part was in the comments (yeah, I know, why did I go there…) where people were protesting the suggestion by one of the few conservative commenters that they should try engaging with conservatives, by saying “there’s noone to engage with…whoever we try to talk to – Brooks, Frum, etc. – is disowned by the right!” As if the whole point of “engaging with” isn’t to try talking to people who disagree with you!

Submitted early on a comment pointing out, as this post did, that Almond was being particularly arrogant in blaming his own issues on conservatives and that the vast majority of media was already Left — thus their refusal to engage the Right.

needless to say, it was deemed good enough to make it past moderation.

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